Skip to main content

Other events 2026-27

In addition to two workshops per year, the LSE Historical Economic Demography group hosts additional events. The 2026-27 events are listed below.

  • We continue this monthly seminar series jointly organised with LSHTM and UCL.
  • The first seminar of the year will be Signe Svallfors (Stockholm University) presenting at LSHTM on 20 October, 12:45-14:00. Her talk is entitled 'Exposure to local violent crime and abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth in Mexico: A study from the SeRO project’.
  • Our own Hampton Gaddy (now a postdoc at Oxford) will present at UCL on 10 November, and LSE will host its first seminar of the year on 1 December with David Leon (LSHTM) presenting.
  • The most up-to-date seminar schedule with titles is available here.

  • Our annual workshop features work in Historical Economic Demography by group members and colleagues within the Southeast of England.
  • We will circulate a call for papers in mid October.

  • This workshop will include masterclasses on agentic workflows and LLM applications to classification, sentiment analysis, and transcription alongside short applied presentations by internal researchers on how they utilise AI in their projects.
  • We hope that this can clarify what is possible at the frontier and promote conversations about the benefits and challenges of using AI for different research purposes.
  • Johann Ohler (J.P.Ohler@lse.ac.uk) is taking the lead on this, so get in touch with him if you would be interested in presenting how you use AI in your research.

  • The HED Reading Group will take a hiatus in AT 2026 while Eric is on parental leave, but will return in WT 2027. Look out for announcements then.

  • This year’s thematic workshop is being organized by Eric Schneider, Lou Henderson, Shari Eli (U Toronto) and Claire Celerier (U Toronto), generously funded by the HED Group, the LSE Global School of Sustainability and the Finance and Business History Lab (University of Toronto).
  • The workshop draws on historical cases to understand why some societies proved more resilient than others when faced with shocks such as epidemics, harvest failures, war or household crises.
  • It examines the demographic, economic and social consequences of shocks, how inequality shaped vulnerability, and which adaptations reduced harm.
  • The keynote speakers are Trevon Logan (Ohio State) and Edson Severnini (Boston College).
  • You can find the full call for papers here. The CFP deadline is 23 November.

Events hosted by the HED Group in 2025-26 can be found here.